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Schizophrenia Often Compounded by Other
Health Woes
People with schizophrenia are more likely to suffer from chronic health
conditions
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New Book Detects Schizophrenia in Sherlock
Holmes' Creator
Inheriting a mental illness from his father, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle suffered
from a form of schizophrenia.
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UPDATE 4-FDA OKs J&J's Next-Generation
Schizophrenia Pill
The drug's label included an unexpected warning that it could increase the
risk of a potentially fatal heart side effect.
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Schizophrenia Studies Should Open Dialog
Recent studies on schizophrenia treatment and cost should spark discovery of
a third generation of treatment.
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Brain Scan May Help Doctors Predict Schizophrenia
The scans revealed that patients had changes in grey matter that happened
before they became unwell.
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Trial Shows Schizophrenia Drug Effective
Iloperidone demonstrated statistically significant improvement compared to
placebo.
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Older Antipsychotic Drugs As Effective As
Newer Ones
People newly diagnosed with schizophrenia should be prescribed a
less-expensive, older antipsychotic drug first.
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Genetic Deformities Linked to Schizophrenia
The genetic recipe for humans turns out to be far more complicated than
imagined.
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Broken Home Linked to Psychosis
People from broken homes may be more prone to psychotic illnesses such as
schizophrenia, research suggests.
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Symptoms of Schizophrenia Eased by
Music Therapy
According to British researchers, some of the symptoms of schizophrenia may
be eased with music therapy.
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Gene Link to Schizophrenia Found
A genetic link to the symptoms of schizophrenia has been found, according to
researchers.
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Wyeth, Partner, Seek OK for Schizophrenia Drug
Bifeprunox and two other compounds would be used for schizophrenia, bipolar
disorder, major depressive disorder with psychotic features
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Experts Want to Rename Schizophrenia
They say it has no scientific validity, is imprecise and stigmatizing.
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Voices in the Head 'Are Normal'
Hearing voices in your head is so common that it is normal, psychologists
believe
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'I Learned to Live with Voices'
He questions whether his voices are a form of mental illness or merely a
normal human variation
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Viagra's Enzyme Action May Give Pfizer
Schizophrenia Advance
Viagra causes an erection by turning off an enzyme in the body. Blocking
similar chemicals in the brain may silence the hallucinations typical of
schizophrenia
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Antipsychotics Effective and Safe in Patients
With Chronic Schizophrenia Presented at ECNP
Olanzapine and the gold standard therapy clozapine appear to be more
efficacious than the other second-generation antipsychotics
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Wayne Fenton, 53; Researcher and Expert on
Schizophrenia
Found dead in his office in Md. Police has charged one of his patients who
suffers from schizophrenia with the murder
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Suspect in Doctor's Death Held Without Bond
A 19-year-old schizophrenia patient charged with murder in the killing of Dr
Wayne Fenton
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Gene Linked to Higher Schizophrenia Risk
Infants with a certain immune gene very closely matching their mothers' have
a higher risk of schizophrenia
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Early Warning for Schizophrenia Found in
Spinal Fluid
Changes in spinal fluid could act as an early warning sign of the
development of schizophrenia, according to new research.
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Schizophrenics Studied for Diabetes Risks
A U.S.-led study is attempting to determine if there is a link between
schizophrenia and an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.
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Bristol-Myers Launches New Abilify Form
A new pill that dissolves quickly in the mouth for treatment of adult
Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder manic's episodes.
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AstraZeneca Submits NDA for Seroquel for
Schizophrenia
With new Sustained Released Formulation.
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Home Genetic Test for Schizophrenia
Within 2 years, a new test to determine genetic susceptibility to
Schizophrenia will hit market.
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AstraZeneca Seeks
Added Seroquel Approval
for a new, sustained release formula tablet, shown to be effective as
early as the second day of treatment.
- Neuropeptide S (NPS) May Help in Treating
Schizophrenia
A small protein in the brain has only recently been discovered that induces both
profound wakefulness and a less anxious state
- Some Symptoms of Schizophrenia are Hard to
Detect and Difficult to Treat
Negative symptoms, are pervasive and persistent and they have a much greater
effect on a patients quality of life
- Link Between Child Abuse and Schizophrenia Proposed
Strong evidence supports the theory that child abuse can cause schizophrenia.
- Depression and Schizophrenia 'Should Be Treated
with Therapy'
Psychological therapy should be offered to every person in the country with
depression, anxiety or schizophrenia.
- Canadian Advocacy Campaign to Bring
Attention to Schizophrenia
Bill MacPhee, founder of Schizophrenia Digest shares details of his national
advocacy campaign.
- Schizophrenia Patients Go Untreated For
Comorbidities
Patients with schizophrenia lose years of life to illnesses such as heart
disease and diabetes because most aren't being treated.
- Nicotine Mimic Improves Cognition in
Schizophrenia
A nicotine-like agent, improves the mental function of patients being treated
with anti-psychotic drugs for schizophrenia.
- Schizophrenia Awareness Week May 21-27; 'Hope
is Today's Reality'
Better medications, more research and greater awareness and support brings more
hope to people with schizophrenia today, than 20 years ago.
- Schizophrenia Limits One's Ability to Perceive
Body Language
Understanding the meaning behind a person's posture or body movement does not
come easy to schizophrenics.
- Zyprexa Trial in Schizophrenia 'Prodome'
Yields Only Hints
A two-year study of Zyprexa (olanzapine) in patients thought to have early signs
of schizophrenia had mixed results.
- Clinical Data Validates Genetic Predictor of
Adverse Drug Reaction
To determine whether a patient is at risk of developing a potentially deadly
blood disorder in reaction to clozapine.
- Comparison of Schizophrenia Drugs Often Favors
Firm Funding Study
Nine in 10 trials showed that the best drug was the one made by the company
funding the study.
- Eli Lilly Faces New
Lawsuits for Excess Zyprexa Sale
Patients charge that Lilly failed to warn that Zyprexa can cause diabetes and
other illnesses.
- Geodon Effective In Treating Schizophrenia Symptoms
With A Postive Effect On Patients' Weight, Cholesterol, Triglycerides
Phase II of CATIE showed.
- Older Drug Is Best for Schizophrenia
Despite the development of numerous modern drugs to treat schizophrenia, the
older, less expensive option, clozapine, is still the most effective treatment
- Hospitalized Patients with
Schizophrenia More Likely to Have Medical and Surgical Complications
Decreased quality of care likely to blame, researchers conclude.
- Revisiting Schizophrenia: Are Drugs Always
Needed?
New report suggests that when some people first develop psychosis they can
function without medication — or with far less than is typically prescribed
- Meds Keep Schizophrenia at Bay
New treatments make it even easier for schizophrenics to stay on their meds ...
and out of hospitals and jails.
- Facial Recognition Software Aids Schizophrenia
Sufferers
New software can teach schizophrenia patients to understand facial expressions,
- National Schizophrenia TMS Trial Planned
TMS is being investigated for its possible role in helping still the voices that
are so troubling to some schizophrenics.
- Bristol-Myers Introduces New Formulations of Drug
Abilify will now be available in two new formulations: a 2 milligram tablet and
an oral solution that does not require refrigeration
- Combo Drug Therapy Won't Improve Schizophrenia
Care
Combining two antipsychotic drugs, clozapine and risperidone, offers no benefit
in people with schizophrenia compared to the use of either drug alone
- Cannabis Use 'Will Impair but Not Damage Mental
Health'
Regular cannabis use can have "real and significant" mental health effects but
unlikely to cause schizophrenia.
- Gene Could Hold Key to Schizophrenia
A
single gene in the brains of mice affected memories in way that resembled
schizophrenia in humans
